Why can't the sky be pretty?

Agreed. Often I see moving layers of multicolored clouds in front of large planets, stars and other strange astral effects. At night, sometimes looking straight up at the stars can totally disorientate me, causing them to move around and form patterns.

I think it depends on how much attention you’re paying to your visual perception. Each of your senses in an LD works only to the level of your concentration. The more you focus on one of them, the more sensitive it’ll become. Occasioanlly I’ll stop, and stare at an object until my vision is enhanced enough to see even the smallest details.

How silly of me to never look at the sky in my LDs. It had never crossed my mind until now. But then again, maybe that’s because 90% of the time, my sky is always black. The only cool sky-related image I’ve seen is when the sky was red and boiling and that was due to my novadreamer going off.

i think the best idea would be to have a positive mind in your LD’s. another would be (as i said many times before) expectancy. dont try to visualize a beautiful sky but instead, before looking up, expect it to look beautiful.

it’s always a clear nighttime in my lucid dreams. Sometimes I can solve this by concentrating on making the sun rise. (always rises everywhere but from the east heheheh) I never know what to expect from my sky, it always seems to change each dream… but mostly it’s dark.

You know what, if I have to MAKE the sky look pretty to have it be, I might as well make everything else pretty while I am at it.
I wonder what an exceptionally pretty street would look like, or an exceptionally pretty cow.
If I have the chance, I’m going to see what I can make pretty, then report back :tongue:

I remember one time I looked at the sky in a LD, and it was a clear blue sky, but straight above me, the colors faded off into a large black vortex in the sky. It was a pretty odd sight, but still very cool.

The last LD I had was only a couple of seconds. After noticing something odd in the way the wave were breaking at the beach I realisd it was a dream so to see how much power I had in the dream world (I have had only a few short LDs) I looked up at a completely normal blue sky and calmy used thought to change it to a night sky and it did so instantly - it became a clear, navy blue sky filled with pure, brilliant white sparkling stars and a bright white moon. Then I let it go back to daytime and I walked off and forgot I was dreaming but even thought the sky looked like it really does, it was really clear and beautiful.

My advice would to be not to demand anything, but to just to expect it to do what you want. If it doesn’t do what you expect you probably wont do any good argueing with it, maybe try asking it…

The thing is the sky won’t be beautiful evry time you look at it. Some times it’s pretty and sometimes it’s not.

I have some beautiful skys but the ugliest ones too.
Just keep on trying and you’ll see it eventually. :smile:

Thats what I did. I couldnt find a mirror, so I took my two hands and ripped one in the ground. Just as I was about to jump in and see what was on the other side…my fridge in my dorm turns on and wakes me up. :cry:

I have always had beautiful skies in my dreams. Alot of times they are night though. I have to concentrate pretty hard while screaming “SUN COME UP” to brighten things up.

I remember one vividly from months, maybe years ago.

I could probably paint it, but i’ll just describe it.

It consisted of a dark, rusty almost maroon color. It was night. Huge planets with vivid craters like a painting. There was a ring of reddish clouds … HUGE. The sky was absolutley huge. It was seen from my back porch as I remember. There where actually clouds around in the middle of this huge “ring” with buildings and planets around, mixed with stars and spaceships speeding about. And while all this was going on, shooting stars actually shot down and swam through my backyard. It was absolutely amazing.

I’ve also had dreams similar to this where the sun and it’s flares where within feet of my face. Absolutely breathtaking.

I guess my artistic nature comes out in my dreams. I’ve rarely had a boring one :slight_smile:

later
Ash

Wow, that is absolutely beautiful. Do you mind if I copy what you just wrote in a notebook and re-use it later ?

I am very sensitive to colours, they are like candies to my eyes, and I will only do colour photography, never B&W. I had several dreams in my life where I had very intense colours (blue, deep blue, glowing green) and shades soothing me or making me feel exctatic. No such things in my lucid dreams yet, unfortunately : |
A few days ago I had a normal dream where I was able to control everything with a magic dragon, and he took me to Beijing where there was a magnificient square, at night, lit in blue and yellow, and people were hang-gliding close to the surface of a decorative glass structure that was suspended above the square.

Michael

Alot of times i don’t really look at the sky in any real observation. Usually my lds are pretty short or low grade so i probably just forget or don’t have the time and stability i’d need to freely review my environment at any mentionable degree. But as for a quick observation id say that the sky always appears in my peripheral vision (because im not looking at it specifically) and seems to appear, like mentioned earlier, kind of gray and unvibrant. But then again the sky comes into as much play as the sky in a video game comes in, im not really watching the sky so its probably generating itself as much as it needs. Although its not always like that. My first decent lucid dream had a beautiful sky, it was a brilliant mixing of purple, fuscia, and blue. the layering of the colors complimented eachother perfectly and the sun itself was a bright smiley face.

I find my mood often dictates my sky, if i am down it is cloudy and sometimes raining.

Sometimes there’s tornados, other times there is plasma storms. (very cool and yet very scary)

One time I remember it was dark, I could see the milky way, galaxies. It was so beautiful. Never though, have i seen the sky in a LD.

Reading this old, old post made me laugh, because the above comes well within my definition of a beautiful sky! Stars and rainclouds are gorgeous and mysterious, and whenever they feature in my dreams (which is sadly not too often) I love looking at the sky. I can’t understand how they wouldn’t be pretty!

I usualy don’t notice the sky in my dreams unless I’m doing something thet involves looking up at it. While flying the sky is usually dark and full of stars. When I’m not too interested in what it looks like then it takes on just a gray color. The best one so far I think is the time I was laying on the grass staring up at it. the clouds were changing colors from blue to differant shades of purple to green and so on. They were swirling in differant places and directions like a 100 hurricanes in the sky but with no wind. I was laying down smoking “dream weed” with my friend and…well, thats another story. :tongue:

My skies are usually always grey and cloudy too.

I don’t know if I’m going to get hanged for saying this, but I’m usually pretty listless and undecisive in my LD’s- maybe the sky simply reflects our underlying mood?

Occasionally I meet some wonderful skies in my dreams. One time I noticed all the white clouds were changing into giant snails (but still made up of vapor) with sun’s rays sailing between them. During a HI I suddenly saw an immense nightsky completely filled with deep purple cushionlike clouds. In a more recent dream, I saw a string of clouds in the shape of Platonic forms, all rotating pretty quickly as they flew by… amazing view that was.

You might be onto something. The sky representing our inner being, kinda like “as above, so below”. It could also have a spiritual meaning… clouds would then symbolize obstacles or some sort of separation.

In my LDs so far I haven’t really specifically looked at the sky, although I have noticed the lighting. Through my peripheral my skies are normally golden/pinkish. They just let off a dull light, really relaxing…beautiful summer sunsets :smile:

My next LD I’m gonna make a special point to look at the sky :smile: I’m dyin’ to know what it’ll look like.

Dee Bee

hey everyone… I’ve been lurking here for a while, but this is my first post. ::points under name::

anyway, this thread in particular came to my mind last night in my lucid dream - It had never occured to me to look at the sky, and I went to bed many times in hopes for big planets and glittery stars…

I did a reality check almost right off the bad in the dream by looking at my hand, and I was delighted to see I could see through my palm. I ran outside and down a gravel path to a field and looked right up at the sky, but in that split second before I could focus above me I felt a force shove me to my knees and say “You’re not worthy of the presents in the heavens.”

the next thing I knew, I was awake in my bed…
personally, I think that this is strange and it disturbed me quite a bit.

…ideas?

Hi sepp, welcome to the forum!

Don’t be too disturbed by such dreams, they just happen :razz:. It’s not like there is some “higher power” that forbids you from looking to the sky, most likely it is something random, from your imagination, from your subconscious, who knows. Sometimes when you just slightly expect such a thing might happen in your dream, it does. Dreams are highly based on your expectations! So, don’t think too much of it. Good luck with your future LD’s :smile:.